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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Japanese people in Indonesia<br />Japanese Indonesians<br />{{nobold|{{Nihongo2|インドネシアの日本人}} / {{nihongo2|日系インドネシア人}}}}<br />{{small|Orang Jepang di Indonesia}}
| flag            = {{flagicon|Japan}} {{flagicon|Indonesia}}
| image           = File:Kodomo mikoshi, Ennichisai, Blok M, Jakarta.jpg
| caption         = ''[[Mikoshi]]'' Parade (''Mikoshi'' Kids) festival in Blok M, South Jakarta, Indonesia.
| population       = 19,612<ref name="MOFA"/>
| regions          = [[Jakarta metropolitan area]], [[Bali]], [[Surabaya]], [[Bandung]], [[Semarang]]
| langs            = [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[English language|English]]
| related-c        = [[Japanese diaspora]]
| footnotes        = The population figure quoted includes Japanese nationals only.
}}

Large-scale '''Japanese migration to Indonesia''' dates back to the late 19th century, though there was limited trade contact between [[Japan]] and [[Indonesia]] as early as the 17th century.<ref name="ShiningJapan">{{citation|url=http://old.thejakartapost.com/community/japan1.asp |date=2008-04-13|title=Shining Japan: From mercenaries and sex workers to entrepreneurs|last=Harsanto|first=Damar|access-date=2010-04-23|periodical=The Jakarta Post |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080413223548/http://old.thejakartapost.com/community/japan1.asp |archive-date = 2008-04-13}}</ref> {{asof|2009|October}}, there were about 11,263 '''Japanese expatriates in Indonesia'''.<ref name="MOFA">{{harvnb|MOFA|2009}}</ref> At the same time, there are also identifiable populations of descendants of early migrants, who may be referred to as '''Nikkei Indonesians''' or '''Indonesian Nikkei'''.<ref>{{harvnb|Meguro|2005|p=49}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shin|2004|p=83}}; the term "Indonesian Nikkei" is also used therein to refer to Japanese expatriates who have settled permanently in Japan</ref>

==Migration history==
Prior to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]'s establishment of their isolationist ''[[sakoku]]'' policy, the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) were known to use Japanese mercenaries to enforce their rule in the [[Maluku Islands]].<ref>{{citation|first=Simon|last=Worrell|title=The world's oldest clove tree|periodical=BBC News|date=2012-06-23|access-date=2012-06-23|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18551857}}</ref> One of Indonesia's early residents of Japanese descent was [[Saartje Specx]], the daughter of Dutch colonial governor [[Jacques Specx]], who ruled [[History of Jakarta|Batavia]] (present-day [[Jakarta]]) from 1629 to 1632.<ref name="ShiningJapan"/> 1898 colonial government statistics showed 614 Japanese in the Dutch East Indies (166 men, 448 women).<ref name="Shiraishi 1993 8">{{harvnb|Shiraishi|Shiraishi|1993|p=8}}</ref>

The Japanese mercenaries have also aided the Dutch East India company on their conquest [[Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands|of the Banda Islands]]. Atrocities are committed against the locals of the island by both the Mercenaries and the soldiers of Dutch East India company.<ref>{{cite web |last=Isnaeni  |first=Hendri F. |date=5 April 2010  |title=The VOC Genocide – Historia |url=https://historibersama.com/the-voc-genocide-historia/|access-date= |website=Histori Bersama  |publisher= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Farid |first=Muhammad |date= |title=Commemorating the Banda genocide in 1621: |url=https://pala.wfm.nl/banda-genocide/ |access-date= |website=Banda – PALA |publisher= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kenji |first1=Tsuchiya |last2=Siegel |first2=James |date=1990 |title=Invincible Kitsch or as Tourists in the Age of Des Alwi |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3351230 |journal=Indonesia |volume= |issue=50 |pages=61–76 |doi=10.2307/3351230 |access-date=|hdl=1813/53943 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Isnaeni  |first=Hendri F. |date=5 Apr 2010  |title=Genosida VOC di Pulau Banda |url=https://historia.id/politik/articles/genosida-voc-di-pulau-banda-DE0w6/page/1 |access-date= |website=historia.id |publisher= |quote=}}</ref>

As the Japanese population grew, a Japanese consulate was established in Batavia in 1909, but for the first several years its population statistics were rather haphazard.<ref>{{harvnb|Murayama|1993|p=89}}</ref> Their reports showed 782 registered Japanese migrants in Batavia in 1909 (with estimates that there were another 400 unregistered), and 278 (57 men, 221 women) in [[Medan]] in 1910.<ref name="Murayama 1993 90">{{harvnb|Murayama|1993|p=90}}</ref> Between ca. 1872 and 1940 large numbers of Japanese prostitutes (''[[karayuki-san]]'') worked in brothels of the archipelago.<ref>Yamazaki, Tomoko; ''Sandakan Bordell Nr. 8;'' München 2005; {{ISBN|3-89129-406-9}}</ref> Beginning in the late 1920s, [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]n fishermen began to settle in [[north Sulawesi]]. There was a Japanese primary school at [[Manado]], which by 1939 had 18 students.<ref>{{harvnb|Meguro|2005|p=65}}</ref> In total, 6,349 Japanese people lived in Indonesia by 1938.<ref name="Fukihara 2007 27">{{harvnb|Fukihara|2007|p=27}}</ref>
[[File:Malang. (Reproductie van een foto, genomen onder de Japanse bezetting.) De Japan, Bestanddeelnr 344-5-4.jpg|thumb|[[Ching Nan Jinja]], a Japanese [[Shinto]] [[Shinto shrine|shrine]] located in [[Malang]], is one of the 11 Shinto shrines built in Indonesia during the Japanese occupation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=中島 |first=三千男 |last2=津田 |first2=良樹 |last3=稲宮 |first3=康人 |date=2019-03-20 |title=旧オランダ領東印度（現インドネシア共和国）に建てられた神社について |url=https://kanagawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/12706 |journal=非文字資料研究センター News Letter |language=ja |issue=41 |pages=17–23 |issn=2432-549X}}</ref>]]
After the end of the 1942‒1945 [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies]], roughly 3,000 [[Imperial Japanese Army]] soldiers chose to remain in Indonesia and fight alongside local people against the Dutch colonists in the [[Indonesian National Revolution]]; roughly one-third were killed (among whom many are buried in the [[Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery]]), while another one-third chose to remain in Indonesia after the fighting ended.<ref>{{harvnb|Hatakeyama|Hosaka|2004|pp=676–677}}</ref><ref name="SankeiShimbun">{{citation |url=http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/imperial/080119/imp0801191209001-n1.htm |language=ja |script-title=ja:秋篠宮ご夫妻、英雄墓地に献花 ジャカルタ |access-date=2010-04-21 |date=2008-01-19 |periodical=Sankei Shimbun |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109002451/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/imperial/080119/imp0801191209001-n1.htm |archive-date=2009-01-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the 1960s, [[Sukarno]] asked the Japanese government to provide scholarships to Indonesian students to study in Japan as part of the technology transfer effort as well as part of the war spoils. Some of these Indonesian students married Japanese and produced Indonesian Nikkei descendants. The Indonesian students who graduated from Japan are now members of Persada, the Association of Alumni from Japan, which was founded in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Persada, Persatuan Alumni dari Jepang |url=http://www.sadanet.or.id/ind/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=54 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914164920/http://www.sadanet.or.id/ind/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=54 |archive-date=2010-09-14 |access-date=2011-02-07}}</ref>

However, not all of these soldiers were Japanese, several famous soldiers who remained like Li Baiqing [[:zh:李柏青|李柏青]] and [[Chen Chih-hsiung]] were ethnic Han Chinese from Taiwan.

In the 1970s, Japanese manufacturers, especially in the electronics sector, began to set up factories in Indonesia; this sparked the migration of a new wave of Japanese expatriates, mainly managers and technical staff connected to large Japanese corporations.<ref name="ChangingFaces">{{citation|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/03/28/changing-faces.html|periodical=The Jakarta Post|date=2008-03-28|access-date=2010-04-23|title=Changing Faces}}</ref> In the late 1990s, there was also migration in the opposite direction; many of the Nikkei Indonesians from Sulawesi began migrating to Japan to work in the seafood processing industry.<ref>{{harvnb|Meguro|2005|p=50}}</ref> {{asof|2004}}, there were estimated to be about 1,200 of them living in the town of [[Ōarai, Ibaraki]].<ref>{{harvnb|Meguro|2005|p=62}}</ref> Furthermore, there was a large outflow of Japanese expatriates in 1998, due to the [[Indonesian riots of May 1998|May riots]] and the associated political chaos.<ref name="JakartaShimbun"/> However, a decade later, the Japanese still made up Jakarta's second-largest expatriate community, after the [[Koreans in Indonesia|Koreans]].<ref name="ChangingFaces"/>

==Business and employment==
The Japanese communities in the Dutch East Indies, like those in the rest of colonial Southeast Asia, remained [[prostitution]]-based as late as [[World War I]].<ref name="Shiraishi 1993 9">{{harvnb|Shiraishi|Shiraishi|1993|p=9}}</ref> The remnant of this prostitution business can be trace in [[Surabaya]]'s ''Jalan Kembang Jepun'', "the Street of the Japanese Flowers", located in the city's old [[Chinatown]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2004/07/18/surabaya-all-together-now-kyakya-kembang-jepun.html |periodical=The Jakarta Post |date=2004-07-18 |access-date=2011-04-19 |title=Surabaya: All together now at Kya-Kya Kembang Jepun |last=Prihandono |first=Omar |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009162324/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2004/07/18/surabaya-all-together-now-kyakya-kembang-jepun.html |archive-date=2012-10-09 }}</ref> Prostitution was outlawed in the Dutch East Indies in 1912, but many Japanese women appear to have continued working in the trade clandestinely.<ref name="Murayama 1993 90"/> However, by the 1930s, the economic focus of the Japanese community had shifted largely towards agriculture, marine industries, and retailing of imported Japanese products.<ref name="Fukihara 2007 27"/> More recent Japanese expatriates are typically investors connected with electronics manufacturing.<ref name="ChangingFaces"/>

==Social integration==
Early Japanese migrants to the [[Dutch East Indies]] were classified as "foreign orientals" by the Dutch government.<ref name="Shiraishi 1993 8"/> This status meant they were subject to restrictions on their freedom of movement, place of residence, and employment. However, in 1898, they were reclassified as "honorary Europeans", giving them formal legal equality with the colonisers and removing those restrictions.<ref name="Shiraishi 1993 9"/> Yet despite this formal equality, local peoples' image of the Japanese people in their midst was still not very positive.<ref name="Shiraishi 1993 8"/> During the World War II occupation of Indonesia, many Japanese officers took local women as concubines.<ref name="ShiningJapan"/> Children born from such relationships, growing up in the post-war period often found themselves the target bullying due to their ancestry, as well as suffering official discrimination under government policies which gave preference to ''[[pribumi]]'' in the hiring of civil servants.<ref>{{harvnb|Fukihara|2007|p=28}}</ref>

In [[Jakarta]], Grand Wijaya Center and [[Blok M]] have clusters of businesses catering to Japanese expatriates, including restaurants, supermarkets selling imported food products, and the like; Blok M in particular is noted for its concentration of ''[[izakaya]]''.<ref>{{citation|periodical=The Jakarta Post |first=Chisato |last=Hara |title=Exploring 'izakaya' in Blok M |url=http://old.thejakartapost.com/community/japan3.asp |date=2008-04-23 |access-date=2010-04-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423060317/http://old.thejakartapost.com/community/japan3.asp |archive-date=April 23, 2008 }}</ref>

==Marriage==
759 Japanese living in Indonesia have the right of permanent residency; these consist primarily of Japanese women married to Indonesian men.<ref>{{harvnb|Shin|2004|p=83}}</ref> In Bali the number of Japanese residents registered with the Japanese Consulate in Denpasar has increased from 43 in 1987, to 595 in 1995, and further to 1,755 in 2006 and 2,225 in 2010. The consulate receives an annual average of about 100 cases of marriage registration, with over 90 percent of them involving Japanese women who marry local men. It processes between 10 and 12 applications for divorce per year.<ref>{{harvnb|Toyota|Thang|2012|p=346}}</ref> Some met their husbands in the context of [[study abroad]], either when the husband-to-be was studying in Japan, or when both were studying in an Anglophone country such as the United States or Australia.<ref>{{harvnb|Shin|2004|p=84}}</ref> Others came to Indonesia, especially [[Bali]], as tourists, and met their husbands there. Japan is one of the largest sources of tourists in Bali, and many Japanese women married to Indonesian men are settled there; one scholar who studied the phenomenon in 1994 estimated four hundred resided there at the time.<ref>{{harvnb|Suzuki|1997|p=341}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Yamashita|2003|pp=87, 97}}</ref>

A large number of the tourists consist of young urban women; they see Bali not as an exotic destination, but rather a nostalgic one, evoking the past landscape of Japan and a return to their "real selves" which they feel are being stifled by life in Japanese cities. Among these, a few come first as tourists, especially to [[Kuta, Bali|Kuta]] and [[Ubud]], and then after repeat visits, marry a local man.<ref>{{harvnb|Yamashita|2003|p=94}}</ref> In some cases, these visits take the form of "romance tourism" or "[[female sex tourism]]", with women entering into relationships with [[Male prostitution|male]] [[sex worker]]s, known colloquially as "Kuta Cowboys".<ref>{{harvnb|Toyota|2006|pp=171–172, 178}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/new-documentary-captures-kuta-cowboys-gigolo-lifestyles/371509 |periodical=The Jakarta Globe |title=New Documentary Capture's Kuta Cowboys' Gigolo Lifestyles |date=2010-04-26 |access-date=2010-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428014009/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/new-documentary-captures-kuta-cowboys-gigolo-lifestyles/371509 |archive-date=2010-04-28 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2002/05/05/039kuta-cowboys039-strutting-their-stuff-lovelorn-visitors.html|periodical=The Jakarta Post|date=2002-05-05|access-date=2010-04-26|title='Kuta Cowboys' strutting their stuff for lovelorn visitors}}</ref> They use [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]], or less commonly [[English language|English]] when communicating with their husbands, children, and grandchildren, but Indonesian far more commonly than other languages when communicating with other relatives.<ref>{{harvnb|Shin|2004|p=87}}</ref>

==Media==
''[[The Daily Jakarta Shimbun]]'' is Indonesia's only Japanese language newspaper. It was founded in 1998 by Yasuo Kusano, who was formerly the ''[[Mainichi Shimbun]]'' bureau chief in Jakarta from 1981 to 1986; he returned to Indonesia after the [[fall of Suharto]], and, finding that many publications banned during the Suharto era were being revived, decided to found a newspaper to provide accurate, in-depth information about Indonesia's new democratisation to Japanese readers. Since then, its circulation has grown from 50 copies to more than 4,000.<ref name="JakartaShimbun">{{citation|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/11/30/jakarta-shimbun039-a-bridge-indonesia.html |date=2009-11-30 |access-date=2010-04-23 |title='Jakarta Shimbun' a bridge to Indonesia |last=Hara |first=Chisato |periodical=The Jakarta Post |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121124855/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/11/30/jakarta-shimbun039-a-bridge-indonesia.html |archive-date=2015-01-21 }}</ref>

Portrayals in Indonesian popular culture centred on Japanese characters include [[Remy Sylado]]'s 1990s [[serial (literature)|novel]] ''Kembang Jepun''. Set during World War II, it tells a story of a [[geisha]] and her Indonesian husband who participates in [[Supriyadi]]'s anti-Japanese uprising. It was reprinted as a full-length book by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 2003.<ref>{{citation|url=http://news.okezone.com/read/2009/06/29/285/233827/wartawan-dan-geisha-tertawan-cinta|periodical=Media Nusantara Citra OkeZone|date=2009-06-29|access-date=2011-04-20|title=Wartawan dan Geisha Tertawan Cinta|last=Nugroho|first=Sidik}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Sylado|2003}}</ref> Another work with a similar theme is Lang Fang's 2007 novel ''Perempuan Kembang Jepun'', from the same publisher, about a 1940s [[geisha]] who becomes the [[polygamy in Indonesia|second wife]] of a Surabaya businessman.<ref>{{citation|last=Sulistiawan |first=Iwan |title=Lang Fang: Another figure in Indonesia's literature |periodical=The Jakarta Post |date=2007-02-20 |access-date=2011-04-20 |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/02/20/lang-fang-another-figure-indonesia039s-literature.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607151644/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/02/20/lang-fang-another-figure-indonesia039s-literature.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Fang|2006}}</ref> The Indonesian martial arts film [[The Raid 2]] depicts a Japanese crime syndicate in Jakarta.

==Education==
[[File:JJS kosha.JPG|thumb|[[Jakarta Japanese School]]]]
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Several [[Nihonjin gakko|Japanese international schools]] are in Indonesia. The [[Jakarta Japanese School]] is located in [[South Tangerang]], [[Banten]] in [[Greater Jakarta]].<ref>[http://www.jjs.or.id/toppage/top.html Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114135720/http://www.jjs.or.id/toppage/top.html |date=2015-01-14 }}. Jakarta Japanese School. Retrieved on January 15, 2015. "JL.Titihan Raya,Bintaro Jaya Sektor 9 Parigi-Pondok Aren,Tangerang Selatan 15227"</ref> 
In 2018 Cikarang Japanese School (CJS, チカラン日本人学校) opened its doors in Deltamas, [[Cikarang]].

The Bandung Japanese School ({{langx|id|Sekolah Jepang Bandung}}; {{Nihongo2|バンドン日本人学校}}) is in [[Bandung]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bjs.sch.id/access.html |language=ja |script-title=ja:アクセス・お問い合わせ |publisher=Bandung Japanese School |access-date=January 15, 2015 |quote="JL. Ciumbuleuit　199　Bandung　40142　INDONESIA"}}</ref> The {{Nihongo|''Sekolah Jepang Surabaya''|[[:ja:スラバヤ日本人学校|スラバヤ日本人学校]]}} is located in [[Surabaya]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sjs1979.com/?page_id=548 |language=ja |script-title=ja:連絡先 |publisher=Sekolah Jepang Surabaya |access-date=January 15, 2015 |quote="Jl. Jetis　Seraten, Kel. Ketintang, Kec. Gayungan, Surabaya60231, Indonesia"}}</ref>

The Japanese School of Bali is a [[hoshuko|supplementary school]] (hoshu jugyo ko or hoshuko) in [[Denpasar]], [[Bali]]. The Makassar Japanese Language Class is a supplementary programme in [[Makassar]], [[Sulawesi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/001.htm |language=ja |script-title=ja:アジアの補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在） |publisher=[[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330214851/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/001.htm |access-date=February 13, 2015|archive-date=2014-03-30 }}</ref>

The {{Nihongo|[[Medan]] Japanese School|メダン日本人学校}}, a day school, previously existed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/1338806.htm |language=ja |script-title=ja:過去に指定・認定していた在外教育施設 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115030344/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/1338806.htm |publisher=[[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology]] |access-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=live |archive-date=2015-01-15 }}</ref> A hoshuko in [[Semarang]] also closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naec.go.jp/kaigai/hasia.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001117210500/http://www.naec.go.jp/kaigai/hasia.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 17, 2000 |language=ja |script-title=ja:アジアの補習授業校一覧 |publisher=[[National Education Center, Japan]] |date=October 29, 2000 |access-date=April 16, 2015 |quote="{{Nihongo2|スマラン 休 校 中}}"}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Ayana Shahab Achan|Ayana Shahab]], former member of [[JKT48]] (Her mother is [[Japanese People|Japanese]] while her father is Indonesian mixed [[Arab Indonesians|Arab]])
* [[Aiko Harumi]], former member of [[JKT48]]
* [[Aiko Saruwosuri Isura]], (Also known as Chef Aiko), Tv presenter and a famed chef.
* [[Alwi Assegaf]], an Indonesian actor (also of mixed [[Arab Indonesians|Arab]] descent)
* [[Amour MiCo]], an Indonesian performer and a [[Disc jockey]]
* [[Dewi Sukarno]], wife of [[Sukarno]], the first president of Indonesia.
* [[Dian Nitami]], an Indonesian actress (her maternal grandfather is a Japanese, placing her in ''sansei'' generation)
* [[Dominique Diyose]], an actress and a model.
* [[Erika Ebisawa]], former member of [[JKT48]], also a Youtuber.
* Fuyu Iwasaki, Indonesian badminton player of mixed Japanese descent.
* [[Haruka Nakagawa]], former member of [[AKB48]] and [[JKT48]]
* [[Hiromitsu Harada]], a famed Japanese chef who frequently appeared in television, introducing Japanese culinary in comical style<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perutgendut.com/media/read/Chef-Harada-San/729#.VO_qCI73R-8 |title=Chef Harada San |access-date=2015-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227073341/http://www.perutgendut.com/media/read/Chef-Harada-San/729#.VO_qCI73R-8 |archive-date=2015-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Ichiki Tatsuo]], also known as Abdul Rahman, a Japanese journalist who defected to Indonesia during the [[Indonesian national revolution|national revolution]]
* [[Jiro Inao]], former manager of [[JKT48]]..
* [[Keiko Warman]], an Indonesian actor
* [[Machiko Kusnaeni]], former managing director of [[Radio Republik Indonesia|RRI]].
* [[Noboru Otobe]], a Japanese soldier who stayed in Indonesia to support the independence movement<ref>{{harvnb|Chō|2005}}</ref>
* [[Nobuyuki Suzuki (Indonesian actor)|Nobuyuki Suzuki]], a film actor.
* [[Reino Barack]], businessman and a [[socialite]].
* [[Rene Nozawa]], former member of [[JKT48]].
* [[Rina Chikano]], member of [[JKT48]] and former member of [[AKB48]]
* [[Rosano Barack]], Businessman. one of the founders of Global Mediacom
* [[Ryuji Utomo]], an [[Indonesia]]n footballer who currently plays as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]] for [[Liga 1 (Indonesia)|Liga 1]] club [[Persija Jakarta]] and the [[Indonesia national football team]]
* [[Tomegoro Yoshizumi]] a Japanese spy and a journalist who defected to Indonesia during the [[Indonesian national revolution|national revolution]]
* [[Umaru Takaeda]], an Indonesian songwriter and musician.
* [[Yuki Kato (actress)|Yuki Kato]], an Indonesian actress (Her father is Japanese)
* [[Yukino Amira]], an Indonesian actress
* [[Yuka Tamada]], an Indonesian Idol

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Ennichisai Blok M Jakarta.jpg|{{ill|Ennichisai|id|Ennichisai}}, a Japanese cultural festival organised by the Japanese community in Jakarta.
File:日本人墓地納骨堂.jpg|Japanese ashes house in Jakarta (TPU Petamburan)
File:Gerbang Monumen Tentara Jepang di Balikpapan.JPG|Japanese cemetery with a ''[[Torii]]'' in [[Balikpapan]].
File:Hirohara Jinja's Haiden.jpg|''Shamusho'' of [[Hirohara Shrine]].
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Chinese Indonesians]]
* [[Indonesians in Japan]]
* [[Koreans in Indonesia]]
* [[Filipinos in Indonesia]]

==References==
===Notes===
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===Sources===
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==Further reading==
* Suzuki, Kazuyo (鈴木 一代; Faculty of Humanities (人間学部), [[Saitama Gakuen University]]). "[https://www.webcitation.org/6XeYsY6BT?url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110004529068.pdf?id=ART0007283220&type=pdf&lang=en&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1428557881&cp= Some Considerations concerning Language and Culture Acquisition of Japanese-Indonesian Children]" (日本-インドネシア国際児の言語・文化習得についての一考察; [https://www.webcitation.org/6XeYsY6BT?url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110004529068.pdf?id=ART0007283220&type=pdf&lang=en&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1428557881&cp= Archive]) ''Bulletin of Saitama Gakuen University Faculty of Humanities'' (埼玉学園大学紀要. 人間学部篇). 創刊号, 1–11, 2001–12. [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004529068 See profile at] [[CiNii]]. ''English abstract available''.
* {{citation|script-title=ja:二つの祖国を生きた・日系インドネシア人 |trans-title=Living with two motherlands: Nikkei Indonesians|author=栃窪宏男 [Tochikubo Hiroo]|publisher=サイマル出版会 [Saimaru Shuppansha]|year=1983|isbn=978-4-377-20609-8|ref=CITEREFTochikubo1983}}
* {{citation|last=Sylado|first=Remy|title=Kembang Jepun|publisher=Gramedia Pustaka Utama|year=2003|isbn=978-979-22-0137-6|oclc=66408790}}
* {{citation|title=Perempuan Kembang Jepun|isbn=978-979-22-2404-7|oclc=79853543|last=Fang|first=Lan|publisher=Gramedia Pustaka Utama|year=2006}}
* {{citation|last=Astuti|first=Meta Sekar Puji|title=Apakah mereka mata-mata? Orang-orang Jepang di Indonesia, 1868- 1942 [Were they spies? Japanese people in Indonesia, 1868-1942]|location=Yogyakarta|publisher=Ombak|year=2008|isbn=978-979-3472-83-6|oclc=222248003}}
* {{citation|script-title=ja:戦後アジアにおける日本人団体ー引揚げから企業進出まで |trans-title=Japanese Organisations in Postwar Asia: From Evacuation to Corporate Entry|editor1=小林英夫 [Kobayashi Hideo]|editor2=柴田善雅 [Shibata Yoshimasa]|editor3=吉田千之輔 [Yoshida Sennosuke]|script-chapter=ja:インドネシアにおける日本人団体 |trans-chapter=Japanese Organisations in Indonesia|author=内野好郎 [Uchino Yoshirō]|year=2008|isbn=978-4-8433-2749-4|publisher=ゆまに書房 [Yumani Shobo]|ref=CITEREFUchino2008}}
* {{citation|first=Masanori|last=Yoshida|chapter=Cross-Cultural Marriage in the Global Age: Young Japanese Women in Indonesia|title=Japanese and Nikkei at Home and Abroad: Negotiating Identities in a Global World|editor-first=Nobuko|editor-last=Adachi|pages=237&ndash;262|publisher=Cambria Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-60497-686-1}}

==External links==
* [http://www.jakartashimbun.com/ The Daily Jakarta Shimbun], a Jakarta-based Japanese-language newspaper
* [http://www.jjc.or.id/ The Jakarta Japan Club], an association of Japanese residents

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